According to wikipedia, social bookmarking is "a method for Internet users to organize, store, manage and search for bookmarks of resources online. Unlike file sharing, the resources themselves aren't shared, merely bookmarks that reference them." Descriptions are added to social bookmarks in the form of metadata. Descriptions can include comments, votes, or tags. The comments, votes, tags and other collaborations regarding a social bookmark are called a folksonomy (as opposed to a taxonomy). Folksonomy is also called social tagging. According to Richardson, the idea is that in working with a community of researchers, new tagging systems will emerge and we therefore see how others might interpret or use the resources that we share.
According to wikipedia, social bookmarking is "a method for Internet users to organize, store, manage and search for bookmarks of resources online. Unlike file sharing, the resources themselves aren't shared, merely bookmarks that reference them." Descriptions are added to social bookmarks in the form of metadata. Descriptions can include comments, votes, or tags. The comments, votes, tags and other collaborations regarding a social bookmark are called a folksonomy (as opposed to a taxonomy). Folksonomy is also called social tagging. According to Richardson, the idea is that in working with a community of researchers, new tagging systems will emerge and we therefore see how others might interpret or use the resources that we share.
References:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_bookmarking
Richardson, Will, Blogs, Wikis, Podcasts, and Other Powerful Web Tools for Classrooms, Corwin, 2010.